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15 Apr 1815 Chresta. Tab. II 2
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11 Geometry
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No diagram being employed,
by nothing but
words would the persevering sense
of intellection have
been produced: and in
this case sense is not
likely to have been
deceived.

of diagram & expected the
Thus they the with reference to the individual papers

But, without a perfect conception, - or, at any rate,
without the supposed consciousness consciousness of such
perfect conception, - a worktask of this kind, and of this length, never could
have been performed. From first to last, no diagram
having been employed, consequently no reference to any actually drawn diagram
made, it is only by thereby designations<add>by words- by words of a purely general nature, verbal description, of the several such as in that case
they could not but be,
that the several relations, borne by the several parts of the figures 10
Explanation necessary[+]
in question to each other, that the descriptions ideas in question could {+} For this purpose
a particular planmode
of designation, for
applicable to the several parts of a
geometrical figure, required to be framed
devised and was devised
and settled accordingly. For
example, in order that such
words of designation
as right, left, top,
bottom, and the like
might be capable of
being employed, it
was necessary that,
of the figure of which
a description was to
be given, the position
should be determined.
But, once for all, care
was taken to declare
and record, the that it
was merely for the purpose
of description
and exemplification
that , this determination
so far as concerned
position, this determination
was made: and
that in whatsoever
positionthe figure it were placed
the species it belonged to and the
of it possessed of the would
be the same.
have been given expressed.. But the descriptionin this way, the ideas in question having actually
have been given expressed. But in this way, the ideas in question having actually been given expressed, how much superior in the character of an intellection test, it
superior this species of exercise can not but have been,
in comparison of any other, will, it is believedhoped,, without
entering into exampleentering into any diagrammatical exemplifications, be found sufficiently intelligible [+]).

[+] for this mode of expression
directions for conceiving
the figure; consequently
its parts placed in a determinate
position: that for
indicating it words such
as top, bottom, right, left,
above, below &c may
warning
given, that any other
tice, what is affected
would be equally true

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Identifier: | JB/018/011/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.
Date_1	1815-04-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-10
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	011	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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